{"id":457,"date":"2010-04-19T18:37:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T18:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2010\/04\/19\/un-judge-says-pope-should-be-prosecuted-at-international-criminal-court-2\/"},"modified":"2010-04-19T18:37:04","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T18:37:04","slug":"un-judge-says-pope-should-be-prosecuted-at-international-criminal-court-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/un-judge-says-pope-should-be-prosecuted-at-international-criminal-court-2\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Judge Says Pope Should be Prosecuted at International Criminal Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Prosecute Pope, UN judge argues<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">United Nations judge Geoffrey Robertson has called on the British government to detain Pope Benedict during his upcoming visit to Britain, and send him to trial in the International Criminal Court for \u201ccrimes against humanity.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">In an article published last week, Robertson said that jurists should invoke the same procedures that have been used to indict war criminals such as Slobodan Milosevic, C-Fam reports.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Robertson is one of five select jurists in the UN\u2019s internal justice system responsible for holding UN officials accountable for corruption and mismanagement. His article was published in several countries and reported on by the Associated Press.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Professor Hurst Hannum of the Fletcher School at Tufts University told the Friday Fax that it would be a \u201creal stretch\u201d to use the ICC since that court\u2019s jurisdiction is mainly reserved for crimes during war.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">More likely, Hannum said, is that experts would invoke the principle of \u201cuniversal jurisdiction\u201d so that national courts all over the world could detain the pope whenever he stepped foot on their soil.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Yet Robertson insisted that the ICC could be used as long as the Pope\u2019s sovereign immunity was waived and as long as jurists can show that the sex abuse scandal was carried out on a \u201cwidespread or systematic scale.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">http:\/\/www.cathnewsasia.com\/2010\/04\/09\/prosecute-pope-un-judge-argues\/<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"> <!--more--> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecute Pope, UN judge argues United Nations judge Geoffrey Robertson has called on the British government to detain Pope Benedict during his upcoming visit to Britain, and send him to trial in the International Criminal&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}